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John Krogstie holds a PhD (1995) and an MSc (1991) in information systems from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), where he is currently a full professor in information systems. He is also the Vice Dean of the faculty, responsible for the thematic area ICT at NTNU. John Krogstie is the Norwegian representative for IFIP TC8 and chair of IFIP WG 8.1 on information system design and evaluations. His research interests are information systems modelling, quality of models and modelling languages, eGovernment and mobile information systems. He has published around 150 refereed papers in journals, books and archival proceedings since 1991.

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Niv Ahituv is the Academic Director of Netvision Institute of Internet Studies and the Marko and Lucie Chaoul Chair for Research in Information Evaluation at Tel Aviv University. From 1999 to 2002 he served as Vice President and Director General (CEO) of Tel Aviv University. From 1989 to 1994 he served as the Dean of Graduate School of Business Administration at Tel Aviv University. In 2005 he was awarded a Life Time Achievement Award by ILLA, The Israeli Association for Information Technol- ogy. Professor Ahituv represents the Israeli Government in UNESCO in issues related to Information Technology.

Khalid Belhajjame is a researcher at the school of computer science of the University of Manchester. He obtained his Ph.D from the University of Grenoble. His general research areas are information and knowledge management, where he has contributed to research proposals on data integration, knowledge engineering of semantic web services, scientific workflows and data provenance.

Marco Brambilla is assistant professor at Politecnico di Milano. He got his PhD at Politecnico di Milano in 2005. His research interests include conceptual models, tools and methods for Web applications, services, and search; user interaction, semantic Web and business processes. He has been visiting researcher at Cisco Systems and at UCSD (University of California, San Diego) and he participated to several national and international research projects. He is coauthor of the book “Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications” (Morgan-Kauffman, 2002). About the Contributors

Peter Brezany is a professor at the Institute of Scientific Computing, University of Vienna, Austria. He received his PhD in Computer Science in 1980 from the Slovak Technical University Bratislava, Slovakia. He began research in 1976 on the design of parallel programming languages and their compil- ers. Since 1990 he has worked on automatic parallelization of scientific and engineering applications for distributed-memory systems, parallel input/output support for high-performance computing, and large- scale parallel and distributed data mining. His current research focus is knowledge discovery and data management on Computational Grids and Clouds, especially in the context of e-Science applications.

Bruno Claudepierre is a PhD student at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (CRI - Centre de Recherche en Informatique) under the direction of Pr. Colette Rolland and Dr. Selmin Nurcan. His research purposes are focused on Information Systems engineering methods and their adaptations in order to comply with the new requirements of IT Governance. He usually works with CRI staff members on connected research areas like Business Process Redesign, Method Engineering, Business/IT alignment and Information System Design.

Steve Counsell is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information Systems and Computing at Brunel University. He received his PhD from Birkbeck, University of London in 2002 and his research interests relate to empirical software engineering; in particular, refactoring, software metrics and the study of software evolution. He worked as an industrial developer before his PhD.

Maya Daneva is an Assistant Professor with the Information Systems Department, University of Twente, the Netherlands. She leads a company-university research program on requirements engineering and architecture design for large enterprise systems projects. Prior to this, Maya was a business process analyst in the Architecture Group of TELUS Corporation in Toronto, Canada’s second largest telecom- munication company, where she consulted on ERP requirements processes, architecture reuse, and siz- ing methods for SAP projects. Maya also was a researcher at the University of Saarbruecken, Germany, involved in improving process modeling methods for SAP. Maya authored more than 70 research and experience papers.

Rébecca Deneckere is affiliated to the CRI (Centre de recherche en Informatique) at the university of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her domain of research is the Method Engineering field, especially Situ- ational Method Engineering. She is also working on Decision-making in Information System Engineer- ing. Her last field of research is the processes context-awareness and the configuration of method lines.

Xiaofeng Du received the PhD degree in computer science in 2009 from the Durham University, United Kingdom. Currently, he is a research fellow at the School of Computer Science, Birmingham University and the Business Modelling and Field Management Research Centre, British Telecom. His research interests include Web services, semantic Web services, service composition, and process mining. He is a member of the British Computer Society.

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Remigijus Gustas is a full professor in the Department of Information Systems at Karlstad University (Sweden). He is the head of the research group on enterprise and system architecture design. Remigijus Gustas holds a diploma in system engineering (1979), a doctor (1986) and a docent (1991) in the area of information systems. In 1999, he was granted a habilitated doctor degree in the area of information system engineering. His main teaching subjects are system analysis and design, advances in information system modeling, object-oriented modeling, database systems, and enterprise modeling. Remigijus Gustas has been involved in a number of industrial and European information technology projects. Remigijus Gustas is a member of IFIP WG 8.1. He was leading projects in the area of enterprise modeling, service-oriented analysis and design, e-business modeling, and software technologies. Remigijus Gustas has acted as a reviewer of contributions for several journals. He was chairing and serving as a program committee member in a number of international conferences. Remigijus Gustas is the author of one monograph and around 70 research publications. His research interests lie in the area of conceptual modeling, semantic and pragmatic aspects of service architectures, information system analysis and design, enterprise modeling and integration. Remigijus Gustas is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design.

Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. His research interests include software engineering, software behaviour analysis, software compliance engineering, and information technology. Dr. Hamou-Lhadj is the founder and the leader of the Software Behaviour Analysis Lab. He has published numerous articles in renowned conference and journal proceedings. He has also been involved in the organization and the program committees of several international conferences. Dr. Hamou-Lhadj holds a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is also an OMG certified expert in Business Process Management. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, and the American Society for Quality (ASQ).

Martin Henkel is an assistant professor at Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, in the area of information systems. The focus of his research is service oriented systems, business process and model driven development of information systems. He is and has been involved in several research projects on health care and the analysis and design of e-services. Currently Martin is in the program committee of several conferences, among these the European Conference on Web Services.

Rob Hierons received a BA in Mathematics (Trinity College, Cambridge), and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Brunel University). He then joined the Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences at Goldsmiths College, University of London, before returning to Brunel University in 2000. He was promoted to full Professor in 2003.

Sardar Hussain is currently pursuing a PhD at the National e-Science Centre (NeSC), at the University of Glasgow in the area of fine-grained security with specific emphasis on the definition and enactment of security-oriented workflows comprising heterogeneous services from multiple autonomous and security conscious providers and related issues including provenance. He received his M.Sc in Computer Science from the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad in 2005. Currently, Sardar serves as a faculty member for University of Malakand, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Pakistan.

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Ivan Janciak is a senior researcher at the Department of Scientific Computing, University of Vienna, Austria. His research interests include workflow enactment engines, distributed data mining, and ontolo- gies. He received his PhD from the Department of Scientific Computing, University of Vienna in 2010.

Paul Johannesson holds a position as professor at Stockholm University, where he works in the area of information systems. Johannesson has worked on federated information systems, languages for conceptual modelling, schema integration, the use of linguistic instruments in information systems, process integration, IT in health care, e-commerce systems design, and value and business modelling. Johannesson is and has been a member of several international program committees; among these are the ER conference and the CAiSE conference.

Fakhri Alam Khan is a PhD candidate at the Department of Scientific Computing, University of Vienna, Austria. His research interests includes scientific workflows provenance, nature inspired meta- heuristic algorithms, and workflow parameters significance measurement. He received his M.Sc. from the Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad in 2005 and worked at the central bank of Pakistan (State Bank of Pakistan).

Elena Kornyshova is a PhD student at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (CRI - Centre de Recherche en Informatique) under the direction of Pr. Colette Rolland and Dr. Rébecca Deneckère. Her research domains are Method Engineering, Process Engineering, Enterprise Architecture and Decision- making in Information System Engineering. Her PhD research aims to propose a Method Engineering approach to improve Decision-making in Information System Engineering.

Vera Künzle finished her Diploma in CS in August 2005. Since then she has been working as software engineer at Persis – a company developing software systems for human resource management. At Persis she is responsible for talent management and recruitment application software. Since 2008 Vera has been additionally working on her PhD under the supervision of Manfred Reichert at the University of Ulm. Her major research interests include object-aware process management and access control.

Shan Lu is employed by Around America Aviation Group and works closely on projects involving Canada and China. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Wuhan University of Technology, as well as both a Master of Science degree and an MBA from Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research has been presented at conferences, including Evaluating Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD). Shan has considerable work experience in information systems, hav- ing worked in the information systems departments of CRC group in Shenzhen, China, and the iNews network in Canada.

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Magnus Lundqvist currently holds an MSc (2001) and a Licentiate (2007) degree in computer science from Linköping’s institute of Technology (Sweden). He is now in the final stage of his PhD studies in informatics and will therefore in a near future defend his dissertation on Information Demand Analysis. Magnus has worked for several years at Linköping University and Jönköping University as a teacher focusing on courses in software engineering, information security, Internet technologies, document and workflow management, knowledge modelling, and information logistics. Magnus’s research focus is mainly directed towards the understanding of needs and requirements for information management in enterprises.

Hossein Mehrfard received his Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Con- cordia University, Montreal (QC), Canada. His research interests include agile software development, software process improvement and modeling, software compliance, requirements engineering, and traceability analysis. He is currently working on investigating the impact of regulatory compliance on software development with a focus on agile software processes.

Asma Mubarak received the PhD from the Department of Computing at Brunel University in 2010 and is currently a Lecturer in Computing at the University of Damascus in Syria. Her research interests are empirical software engineering, incorporating coupling metrics, system re-engineering and refactoring.

Malcolm Munro is a professor of software engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Durham, UK. His main research focus is software visualization, software maintenance and evolution, and program comprehension. He is also involved in research in Software as a Service and the application of Bayesian networks to software testing and program comprehension.

Jeffrey Parsons is Professor of Information Systems and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He holds a PhD in Information Systems from the University of British Columbia. His interests include systems analysis and design, data management, and electronic commerce. His research has been published in journals such as Na- ture, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. Dr. Parsons is a senior editor for the Journal of the Association for Information Systems and an associate editor for Information Systems Research. He has served as Program Co-Chair for the 2010 International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, the 2008 Americas Conference on Information Systems, and the 2001 Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems.

Erik Perjons is a research engineer in the area of information systems at Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. His research focus is enterprise modeling, business process management, and model driven development of information system. He has participated in several research projects in health care, analyzing and designing health care processes within and between health care organizations, as well as integrating and designing information system support.

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Uzma Raja is an assistant professor of management information systems at the University of Ala- bama in the Department of Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Science. She received her Ph.D. in information systems from Texas A&M University in 2006. Her research interests are in the areas of information systems evolution, open source software, data/text mining applications, and health information systems. Her research has been published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Information Resource Management Journal, Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution, Informa- tion Technology and Management, and Journal of Health Information Management Systems.

Manfred Reichert holds a PhD in CS and a Diploma in Mathematics. Since January 2008 he has been appointed as full professor at the University of Ulm. Before, he was working as Associate Professor at the University of Twente where he was also leader of the strategic research orientation on e-health and a member of the Management Board of the Centre for Telematics and Information Technology. His major research interests include next generation process management technology (e.g., adaptive processes, management of process variants, data-driven processes), service-oriented architectures (e.g., service interoperability, service evolution), and advanced applications for ICT solutions (e.g., e-health). Together with P. Dadam he pioneered the work on the ADEPT process management technology. Manfred was PC- Co-Chair of the BPM’08 conference in Milan and General Co-Chair of the BPM’09 conference in Ulm.

Jennifer Sampson received her PhD in Computer Science from the Norwegian University of Sci- ence and Technology. In her work she pioneered the use of whole ontology visualization techniques for alignments. Jennifer now works in industrial IT at Statoil in Norway doing large scale data integration.

Kurt Sandkuhl is a full Professor of business information systems at the University of Rostock, Germany, and affiliated Professor of information engineering at Jönköping University, Sweden. He received his MSc and PhD in computer science from Berlin University of Technology (Germany), and the post-doctoral lecturing qualification from Linköping University (Sweden). Before joining the University of Rostock in 2010, Kurt Sandkuhl was a scientific employee at Berlin University of Technology (1988- 1994), department manager (1996-2000) and division manager (2000-2002) at Fraunhofer-Institute for Software and Systems Engineering in Berlin, and Professor at Jönköping University, Sweden (2002- 2010). Kurt Sandkuhl has taught courses in software engineering, development of distributed applications, computer-supported collaborative work, system analysis, information modeling, software quality management, information logistics and graduate seminars in information systems. His research interests are in enterprise modeling, information logistics and ontology engineering. Kurt Sandkuhl published three books and more than 100 papers in journals and international conferences.

Ulf Seigerroth is assistant professor in informatics with specialisation in enterprise modelling at School of Engineering, Jönköping University (JTH). Ulf received his bachelor degree in 1994, Licenti- ate degree in 1999 and PhD in 2003. In 2004 he was appointed as head of the informatics department at Jönköping International Business School for 3.5 years. During this time Ulf was the co-founder and co-director of CenIT (Centre of Evolving IT in Networked organisations) and he was also the co-founder of the graduate school of informatics (GSI). Ulf is since 2010 acting as research director for a research group in information engineering. Ulf´s current research direction is towards issues concerning business

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and IT-alignment and transformation. Within this area more specific issues of interest are enterprise modelling, enterprise architecture, information logistics, and method engineering. His research is char- acterised by empirically driven and theory- and method informed development (action research).

William Song is Associate Prof. of Computer Science and Director of Research Group of Web Intel- ligence, Services, and Agent Technologies at Durham University, United Kingdom. His major research interests include database systems and development, conceptual modelling, semantic web technology, web services, web mining, requirements engineering, business modelling, e-business, service science and web science. He has pursued in the research and development of contextual conceptual modelling for many years and published many research papers on this topic. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and ACM.

Marietta J. Tretter is a professor at the Department of Information and Operations Management, Texas A&M University. She has conducted research on data mining applications, as well as on topics involving statistical computing and mathematical programming. Her work has appeared in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Math Programming, Academy of Management and the Annals of Statistics. She teaches courses in basic Business statistics and Data Mining for Business. Her research interests are related to aspects of GIS, Data Mining applications and Software Engineering.

Csaba Veres received his PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Arizona, where he studied the relationship between conceptual semantics and natural language. He subsequently gained experience in data modeling, and formed strong research interests in the relationship between technical information systems, conceptualizations of those systems, and the artificial languages used to describe them. Csaba has been actively researching semantic web technologies for the past 10 years, always maintaining that a strong connection between cognitive sciences and computer science is necessary for a complete understanding of the challenges we face in systems interoperability. Csaba has applied semantic technologies in projects involving knowledge management, tourism, linked data, and metadata driven search. He is currently Associate Professor at the University in Bergen.

Barbara Weber obtained her Ph.D. in Economics at the Institute of Information Systems, Univer- sity of Innsbruck (Austria). Since 2004, she is researcher at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck where she currently completed her habilitation in Computer Science. She is a member of the Quality Engineering (QE) research group and head of the research cluster on business processes and workflows at QE. Her main research interests are flexible processes and intelligent user support in extensible systems. This spans several technology areas including process-aware information systems, case-based reasoning, process-oriented knowledge management, enterprise information systems, process mining, and agile software development. She has published more than 60 research papers and articles, among others in Data and Knowledge Engineering, Science of Computer Programming and the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems.

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